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Article #2109Re: Converting Java Util classes to C++
From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:46
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:46
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Writing code using anything other than 1's and 0's is a hack. My foo is stronger than yours. This type of religous stuff should really be in non-tech. -Rich Anduin Withers wrote: > > > Templates are C++'s hack to work around the lack of a standard common > > root object type (like Java's java.lang.Object); you cannot get around > > them unless they retroactively fix C++ to have such a class. > > Having a rooted class hierarchy is a hack. A compiler defined base class > makes you write code to provide type safety. > > -- > Anduin Withers
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